Swindon Town FC vs Wycombe Wanderers FC Official Matchday Thread

[DV]

It was so obvious, I think we can only assume that both Ferry and JPM were injured.

They certainly didnt look injured, neither were fouled, neither went down injured.

[Spencer_White]

I didnt have a drink today, which could have explained a lot. But I could have cried tears of frustration at full time today.

Away at Franchise, home to Southampton and second half against Walsall were fanastic displays of fast wingers and attacking prowess. The best wing play weve had for years. Sorry to bring up some bad memories. But when Wilson joined us I had visions of the City teams who ripped us limb from limb at Ashton Gate with Murray on the right. They could afford average strikers like Peacock and Roberts because their front 6 were built to attack, Murray got 30 goals in one season. This summer we signed Andy O'Brien who looks one of the quickest Swindon players ever. Lloyd Macklin is now our best young player and is ready for league football, and this has brought the best out of JPM and McNamee who have underperformed for us for a long time. So I wasnt that worried when we started the season with just Paynter up front.

So why oh why are you playing 3 mediocre strikers up front Danny? Why? There is no excuse. We were shit out there today. Boring and predicable, going for a 1-0. The crowd was quiet (swindon are a family club now, well done, the atmosphere is gash) but it was a better crowd that weve had and instead of giving us hope that we can challenge for a top 6 spot, people will have left fans thinking we have no desire to get ourselves up there.

[DV]

I would have fancied Peacock to score a couple today!!!

[Panda Paws]

I didnt have a drink today, which could have explained a lot. But I could have cried tears of frustration at full time today.

Away at Franchise, home to Southampton and second half against Walsall were fanastic displays of fast wingers and attacking prowess. The best wing play weve had for years. Sorry to bring up some bad memories. But when Wilson joined us I had visions of the City teams who ripped us limb from limb at Ashton Gate with Murray on the right. They could afford average strikers like Peacock and Roberts because their front 6 were built to attack, Murray got 30 goals in one season. This summer we signed Andy O'Brien who looks one of the quickest Swindon players ever. Lloyd Macklin is now our best young player and is ready for league football, and this has brought the best out of JPM and McNamee who have underperformed for us for a long time. So I wasnt that worried when we started the season with just Paynter up front.

So why oh why are you playing 3 mediocre strikers up front Danny? Why? There is no excuse. We were shit out there today. Boring and predicable, going for a 1-0. The crowd was quiet (swindon are a family club now, well done, the atmosphere is gash) but it was a better crowd that weve had and instead of giving us hope that we can challenge for a top 6 spot, people will have left fans thinking we have no desire to get ourselves up there.

I agree fully with this post and your previous one Spence, it was incredibly frustrating today as Revell or Paynter playing as winger is a terrible idea. Them two up top could work if we play 4-4-2, with bundles of pace and delivery out wide.

The one thing that really fucked me off today though is the fucking morons who keep screaming for us to go forward and go long at every occasion. We have the players in Greer, Cuthbert, Douglas, Ferry and JPM to dominate possesion, and we went too long too early today. The rare occasion we did keep the ball and play our football, the dickheads were crying out for us to go long!

[Whits]

Do we have something in Ferry's loan contract to say that hes not going to play 90 minutes as hes been subbed on every game for us?!

[Rich Pullen]

A shame we couldn't hang on.

[Berniman]

The game was there for the taking and we only have ourselves to blame for not taking 3 points.  3 of the back 4 looked solid, the JFL needs a rest so Callum should get his chance.

JP & Douglas were the best players on the pitch by far.  JP was carrying an injury as he had his right knee strapped up with skin coloured bandages, I am pretty sure that is why he was taken off because he did nothing wrong on the pitch.  He may not have looked injured but maybe they were protecting the knee.  My problem is, if you know that you are only going to play JP for 60 mins, why take Ferry off?  They are our only 2 creative players and one or the other need to be on the pitch to make us tick at the moment.

Macca should have come on earlier but for Revell who just ran out of ideas full stop.  Billy ran his arse off but didn't look capable of scoring.  Topi was better, but only for the first half.

All in all a bloody frustrating game that should have collected 3 points, but a mixture of poor tactics and substitutions meant we didn't!

Spencer, I don't know what game you were watching but WW were the worst side I have seen this season.  Maybe you should have a drink next game! 

[chalkies_shorts]

Wycombe really were crap and we were no better. Paynter was totally ineffective today with Revell even worse. How many touches does he need before he gets his shots off. Tope was pretty good in a Paolo Wanchope sort of way - ie he hasn't got a fucking clue where he's running so defenders don't either. The midfield was really patchy. Lescinel was crap today. Lucas came for and caught everything. Greer's distribution was well below par. Cuthbert and Manky had good games.
Overall a frustrating game. thier goal was shit defending. They should have been 1 nil up in the 1st minute and did fuck all else until they scored.  We were crap - the only save their keepr had was the last minute header.
As others have said, the subs were surprising. We needed Macca or Macklin on at the start of the 2nd and Revell needed to come off and put Billy back in the middle. I couldn't see any advvantage of taking off Ferry or JPM.
A bad day at the office.
 

[Spencer_White]

To be fair I think fans should stop running down this league. Ive watched a lot of football at this level, and I think this is the best quality 3rd tier league since we won it in 1996.

Wycombe werent great, but I think on balance of play they should have won today. Zebroski, Betsy and that other black player are dangerous, just weve got a better defence.

Some people have got short memories. I heard a few people saying, oh my god, were being out played by Wycombe. But I remmember a few years ago they gave us a football lesson at home in the league cup. Completely battered us with Easter and Betsy. Theyve been a respectable league side for a long time.

I missed Yeovil and Wolves. But I rekon the only bad team Ive seen was McDons in the League Cup. Ince put out a few reserves and we battered them. Decent standard. It's not like losing to Barnet and Grimsby like we did under Sturrock in League 2. Those teams really were utter gash.

[DV]

I'm going to have to disagree. This division was alot stronger in the early 2000s than it is now.

Stoke, Reading, Brighton, Crewe, Wigan, Cardiff all had very good teams. Even the Bristol City team that never got promoted was a bloody good one.

I do however think this is the strongest the division has been since 2003. However, i thought Wycombe were extremely poor and I wouldnt want Zebroski, Betsy or Pittman any where near our team.

I also thought Southampton, Southend and Colchester were all pretty poor as well.

[Dr Pierre Chang]

Some people have got short memories. I heard a few people saying, oh my god, were being out played by Wycombe. But I remmember a few years ago they gave us a football lesson at home in the league cup. Completely battered us with Easter and Betsy. Theyve been a respectable league side for a long time.

That the game Reeves got badly injured?

And Nathan Tyson was upfront for them and absolutely tore us apart, class act.

[dell boy]

We had a bad day at the office, two points lost but not the end of the world .... for goodness sake lads these days will happen not just for us but sides higher in the division. We are going through an unbeaten spell and in the last two games not playing well, but we haven't been beaten.
Seventh position in the league and still in a position to strike, for fuck sake get a grip.

[Rich Pullen]

If we're to seriously compete then we've got to win those.

But results wise, this is a drastic improvement from last year. I don't go often so I don't have that frustration of witnessing throwing away 2 points.

[Spencer_White]

Chris, yes thats the one. They were under Gorman, we battled like hell to get back into it and they ended up completely battering us. Mooney played for them that night as well.

Dave, I agree that the teams at the top were very good in the early 2000's. Earnshaw was a menace at Cardiff. Stoke had Peter Hoekstra! A dutch international. Wigan, very good 4-4-2 unit. Not so sure about Brighton, or Reading. But at the bottom you had some real shit teams who were struggling to survive after the collapse of ITV digital. I remmember going to Wrexham and they had 2500 fans on a saturday. The scum were a disgrace. A lot of teams, like ourselves that just didnt score enough goals. Lots of awful teams you could get points off. The league is much more even this year, we lost the 3 poorest teams last year. Yeovil should have gone as well, but they hung in there.

Southend were dissapointing, but I think Colchester came to do a job. We'll see more flair when we play them away. Like I said, its a more even league. Look at Gills battering us 1st game, they will be mid table.

[Reg Smeeton]

Seventh position in the league and still in a position to strike, for fuck sake get a grip.

It'd just be straight at the keeper or wide of the target....